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Hank Scorpio

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  1. Hank Scorpio
    That was a fun little storm that rolled through Leesburg earlier. Didn't last long, but got a little rowdy and dropped 0.25" of rain.
  2. Hank Scorpio
    Pretty tame wind, but we did have about a minute of nickle sized hail here in Leesburg. The storm also looked pretty cool on approach.
  3. Hank Scorpio
    That outbreak produced the one and only tornado I've ever seen. I was working at Dulles that day and very wisely ignored the "take shelter" commands issued via loud speaker. Instead I ran up onto the enclosed pedestrian bridge between terminal A and B just in time to watch the tornado drop near the main terminal.
  4. Hank Scorpio
    Maxed out at 100.2° which is good for the all time high on my station. I've only had it installed for two years, so not all that surprising. Officially hot though!
  5. Hank Scorpio
    93° with a heat index of 110° according to my tempest. Today feels like the day I finally crack 100°...hit 99.9° a bunch yesterday but never got over the hump. Also just saw that Leesburg canceled the 4th of July parade tomorrow because of the heat. We go every year, so it's a real bummer, but I get it.
  6. Hank Scorpio
    0.21" over the weekend for me, although that may be a little low since the Tempest struggles a bit when it comes to measuring drizzle, and it was a full on drizzle fest for a while this morning.
  7. Hank Scorpio
    That lead cell in Loudoun missed me by just a few short miles. Interestingly even with no rain, just the outflow was able to drop the temp from 94° to 85°. My kid is supposed to have a flag football game at 6 this evening. Guessing that isn't gonna happen.
  8. Hank Scorpio
    Caught a glimpse of some kelvin-helmholtz clouds this morning. Always neat to see, since they seem to dissappear so quickly.
  9. Hank Scorpio
    Loudoun didn't send kids home early, but then my kids school ended up within one of the tornado warnings. No tornado of course, but kids were sitting in the hallway in the 'duck and cover' pose for 30 minutes. Ultimately not a huge deal, and since I was watching radar and know what to look for, I wasn't stressing about it at all. I also know most people not only don't watch the radar, but wouldn't know what to look for even if they did. Probably a pretty anxious time for a lot of parents today.
  10. Hank Scorpio
    I was so close to having a great view of that couplet just before it crossed the Potomac. I was a few miles south, in sterling, but was waiting on an oil change to be done so didn't have access to my car. This was as good as my view got
  11. Hank Scorpio
    Just dropped to 33.9° where I am in Leesburg and snow is starting to stick in the grass. Fun event!
  12. Hank Scorpio
    Starting to stick to paved surfaces in my neighborhood here in Leesburg. And based on my very scientific "take a look at my neighbors patio furniture" measurement method, looks like we're over 2".
  13. Hank Scorpio
    Lots of flakes suddenly mixing in now, but the temperature is still hovering around 37. Lines up well with the radar presentation, since oranges just stared popping up over Leesburg
  14. Hank Scorpio
    Temp on my PWS is sloooooooowly creeping down, just now showing 35.8 As soon as the yellows got overhead here in Leesburg again we went right back to a rain / snow mix.
  15. Hank Scorpio
    Anyone have a good siding repair contractor recommendations in NOVA? The glacier on my roof moved a bit this week and took some trim+siding with it.
  16. Hank Scorpio
    The USPS keeps leaving me notes telling me to clear the snow from in front of my mailbox. But I'm one of the only ones in my neighborhood who shoveled enough that the mail truck can actually pull up to my mailbox. And I know he is, because I can see remnants of tire tracks in the slush every day. Maybe I'll shovel snow back in front of the mailbox to see if that makes them happy.
  17. Hank Scorpio
    This is exactly what I'm doing today. I was able to get up and down my driveway yesterday without shoveling, so now I'm working on clearing a one car width path in case I need to get back out again. What's working best so far is to use a regular shovel to punch through and break up the glacier. Then I'm using a snow shovel to move bunches of it out of the way. Slow going, but it works.
  18. Hank Scorpio
    You know it was a good storm when they bust out the front end loader for snow/sleet clearing work.
  19. Hank Scorpio
    Really interesting thing to me about driving in this stuff is how much of a difference ground clearance seemed to make. My vehicle has AWD but only has 6 inches of ground clearance. On the plowed but still snow/sleet covered and compacted surfaces I had zero issues. But on my unplowed street, I just could not get any traction with the snow and sleet keeping the vehicle from settling down to street level. Sitting on top of the sleet, my wheels basically just spun. Just to get off my unplowed street I had to drive in reverse, which probably only worked because the rear has a bit more clearance than the front and that allowed for a little momentum. Felt a lot like driving on sand though.
  20. Hank Scorpio
    Made it home from the hospital! I was hoping we'd get out of there while it was still snowing, but by the time we got all the paperwork done and the baby in the car, it'd been sleeting for quite a while. Thankfully roads were fine, just snow and sleet packed. Hardest part of the drive was getting up our unshoveled driveway. Speaking of, I'm not too excited about going out to shovel that. Might just wait until tomorrow to get working on it and just relax the rest of today.
  21. Hank Scorpio
    We've got first flakes where I am in Loudoun right now, just a few miles SE of Leesburg. It's light, but fun to know that every single flake is sticking
  22. Hank Scorpio
    Whoa nice! I have the same oven but never use it in the cold. Does it hold heat pretty well at lower temperatures?
  23. Hank Scorpio
    Doctor DiGiornio in the house! Are you even a pizza connoisseur if you don't doctor up your frozen pizzas?
  24. Hank Scorpio
    Wow, 70 pounds, that's incredible! Keep it up man, I bet you'll knock those next 20 off this year and you can make your pizza dreams come true. And I seriously ordered a supreme for dinner tonight from a local pizza place instead of trying to down any hospital food haha.
  25. Hank Scorpio
    Awesome. If you don't already have one, a baking steel (or knockoff version from Amazon) is a great way to get even better results. There's a fun recipe for cacio e pepe pizza that uses an ice cube on top of the dough. Maybe I'll have to do a version using freshly fallen sleet haha
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